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DOE fast tracks test reactor projects: What to know
The Department of Energy today named 10 companies that want to get a test reactor critical within the next year using the DOE’s offer to authorize test reactors outside of national laboratories. As first outlined in one of the four executive orders on nuclear energy released by President Trump on May 23 and in the request for applications for the Reactor Pilot Program released June 18, the companies must use their own money and sites—and DOE authorization—to get reactors operating. What they won’t need is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission license.
Jordan Alexander, Forbes Powell, Mark Hagen, Jeff Guckian, Bobby Warren
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 49 | Number 4 | May 2006 | Pages 832-837
Technical Paper | Target Fabrication | doi.org/10.13182/FST06-A1209
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Tents meeting current thickness and uniformity/roughness specifications are needed to position ICF target-capsules inside hohlraum assemblies. We have developed a vacuum-forming technique to mold less than 100nm-thick polyimide films into partially-conforming capsule-tents. Characterization of the tents has been performed by an in-house metrology system designed to measure their roughness-and thickness-distributions. This paper will review the results of our tent-forming technique and the characterization of these tents surrounding capsules in hohlraum assemblies.
